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Google abandons “Web Environment Integrity”
Taking the win. Celebrating the fact there was a big enough backlash to get Google to pull their head in.
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Google abandons “Web Environment Integrity”
Taking the win. Celebrating the fact there was a big enough backlash to get Google to pull their head in.
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Finland’s successful approach to ending homelessness catches eye of Quebec City
has suggested that the solution to the crisis may be a Finnish model, which is a 'housing first' approach that aims to give everyone a home.
Fixing homelessness by giving people a home! I'm not sure that's going to work.....facepalm
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Posteo email considered unprofessional?
Posteo is great for business. It's a professional and competent company that respects your privacy to a good degree, and has a clue about security. In a sense it's MORE professional than trying to DIY, unless you really know what you're doing. I would feel encouraged to see a business use Posteo when I receive the email. It tells me that your business probably cares a little about security and/or privacy and possibly the environment too. Total kudos for using Posteo from me.
What I think is completely unprofessional is to use your ISP's address for business email. The number one unprofessional business move, in my opinion, is to have your business website on Facebook/Meta, Twitter or any other enshitified corporate social media site. You won't get my business. I'll go anywhere else no matter how inconvenient.
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Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims
If they weren't doing anything wrong they shouldn't care who watches where they go, right?
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Federal judge orders documents naming Jeffrey Epstein's associates to be unsealed
January 1 - This is just the emotionally charged distraction. Keep watchful for the event that needs to go under the radar. A change in laws or policy, a new war, or anything that is meant to erode people's privacy, security or freedom. The US has a history of implementing undesirable changes during holiday periods when there's little opposition. Possibly something like this;
https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-they-must-defeat-hpsci-s-horrific-surveillance-bill
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is set to expire on December 31, 2023
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Company disables AI after bot starts swearing at customer, calls itself the ‘worst delivery firm in the world’
Hahahahahhah lmao, this is funny, weird, stupid, useless and disturbing all at once.
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I totally agree with the title's sentiment. I don't mind some free open source rough edges. Lemmy functions great. There's also a good deal of what looks like genuine interaction. However, I would like to point out that I think there's a LOT of corporate shills pushing agendas. Some notable ones might be pharmaceutical propaganda and corporate banking with cashless solutions.
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Google are totally into blocking ads. That was the whole catch line for selling WEI. "We'll block all the random ads for you and keep you safe". What they didn't say was that they would replace the blocked ads with Google bought ads.
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YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users
Google's modus operandi - business as usual. Deploying their dirty tricks on their mass of servers to edge out and destroy competition. When caught out they apologize all surprised Pikachu style, then do it again differently. This is likely in response to news about Firefox mobile finally allowing extensions to work. People are probably trying it out, but their Youtube experience will be crap, so they'll go back to chrome.
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Why does have to keep profiles hidden in "about:profiles" like they're illegal to have. It's quite literally the 1 feature stopping me from using it over Vivaldi. That and vertical tabs, of
Here's a tip to make using Firefox profiles easy.
about:profiles and create a profile. Let's call this one "better" because it has the Betterfox css added. (an example)firefox in a terminal will launch the default profile. Typing firefox -p better will launch the "better" profile. If you're on OS X or Windows just find out what the equivalent command would be to execute the launch.Name: Firefox profile better
Command: firefox -p better
Keys: enter the keys you want to use
How to choose keys;
My desktop environment uses super(windows) + b to launch the default browser, which happens to be Firefox. So for me it makes sense to use something like super + shift + b for consistency, and easy to remember. If you have a profile with Arkenfox css it could be super + shift + a. Regardless, try for a mnemenic and consistent solution.
Now whenever you want to launch a new instance of a Firefox profile just tap the keys you assigned.
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Fox News to Taylor Swift: ‘Don’t Get Involved in Politics!’
Leave...Taylor...ALONE! :p
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European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption
At last, some authority talking sense!
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See, you educated yourself! I only wanted to point you to official documentation with the hope you get in the habit of starting there (with any tech). Ask a hundred people and probably get a hundred differing answers. Look at Stack Overflow and sites like that where there's always multiple answers. Thankfully there's usually one with a green tick that is likely the best answer. Anyway, you now have it in a nutshell - No data to recover = The point of using Tails (without persistence). There's no such thing as permanent total online anonymity.
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US judge rules: if you can't prove damages, car-makers can continue to intercept and record customers' mobile phone activity.
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Yep.
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US judge rules: if you can't prove damages, car-makers can continue to intercept and record customers' mobile phone activity.
It can't be illegal because you agree to allow them when you purchase the new vehicle. It's all there in the T&C and PP, which no one ever reads. Don't like it? Don't buy new cars. I won't.
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Oh no ...
Block those communities and subjects you don't want in your feed.
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WhatsApp finally forces Pegasus spyware maker to share its secret code
This seems like a win for "civil society". Putting a dent in NSO's secrecy so software makers can patch against it would be a win as long as Whatsapp (Meta) publish their findings publicly and not keep it for themselves to be the next biggest threat to "civil society". As if they haven't done enough civil damage and spying themselves already.
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A COSMIC Thanksgiving
COSMIC DE now runs on Asahi Linux, while cosmic-settings and cosmic-icons have been added to NixOS!
This news is awesome! With Slint, Iced and all the many projects working on Rust apps for COSMIC, and now having other distributions on board gives a lot of confidence in the quality of this desktop.
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I think the first responder @grant did understand and answered in a relevant way. I'll answer your question with a question. What is the point of using VPN if your ISP can correlate times from logs? I think you should get on the Tails site and educate yourself further to better understand use case for Tails.
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Gary the goat wreaks havoc at farm and lets two horses escape
Gary is my spirit animal.